11 Best politics books like Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Arvin

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Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

By: Maile Arvin

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans ass…

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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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2. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (Volume 31) (American Crossroads)

By: Nayan Shah

3.85

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, tran… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • academic
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3. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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4. Ms Ice Sandwich

By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more

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5. The True Story of Kaluaikoolau: As Told by His Wife, Piilani

By: None , Frances N. Frazier

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that… read more

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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. The Woman Warrior

By: Maxine Hong Kingston

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more

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9. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

By: Sara Ahmed

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to pro… read more

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10. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

11. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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12. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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13. Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the hor… read more

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14. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

4.52

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more

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  • race
"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."

-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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15. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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16. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

By: Behrouz Boochani

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Li… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner."

-Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

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17. The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration

By: David A. Chang

4.46

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • academic
  • indigenous
Cover of Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli

18. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

By: Elizabeth A. Povinelli

3.99

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of l… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
"contemporary states make live, let die, and kill"

-Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

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19. The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (Critical Studies in Native History, 20)

By: Susan M. Hill

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • academic
  • indigenous
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20. Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania

By: Maile Arvin

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans ass… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • academic
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21) by Brittany Luby

21. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21)

By: Brittany Luby

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson

22. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

By: Audra Simpson

4.36

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and ant… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • academic
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
Cover of The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson

23. The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas)

By: Aileen Moreton-Robinson

4.32

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty The White Pos… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
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24. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Dissident Acts)

By: Macarena Gómez-Barris

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative prac… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • academic
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
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25. The Salt-Wind: Ka Makani Pa‘akai

By: Brandy Nālani McDougall

4.30

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This postcolonial collection of poetry is the first by Native Hawaiian poet, Brandy Nalani McDougal… read more

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  • indigenous
Cover of Aina Hanau / Birth Land (Volume 92) (Sun Tracks) by Brandy Nālani McDougall

26. Aina Hanau / Birth Land (Volume 92) (Sun Tracks)

By: Brandy Nālani McDougall

4.63

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

‘Āina Hānau / Birth Land is a powerful collection of new poems by Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) po… read more

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  • indigenous
Cover of Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing

27. Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign

By: Tiffany Lani Ing

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Reclaiming Kalā Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign examines the American, inte… read more

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Cover of Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts (Indigenous Americas) by Chadwick Allen

28. Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts (Indigenous Americas)

By: Chadwick Allen

3.83

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant … read more

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  • indigenous
Cover of Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History by John P. Rosa

29. Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History

By: John P. Rosa

3.81

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Massie-Kahahawai case of 1931–1932 shook the Territory of Hawai‘i to its very core. Thalia Mass… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson

30. Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies

By: Dylan Robinson

4.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experienceHungry Listening i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • academic
  • indigenous
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31. Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania

By: Kealani Cook

4.25

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Between 1850 and 1907, Native Hawaiians sought to develop relationships with other Pacific Islander… read more

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  • history

15 Top history books like Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Arvin

Transform Your Habits

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (Volume 31) (American Crossroads)

Nayan Shah

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

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16 best-selling history books like Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21) by Brittany Luby

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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

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